Kansas Supreme Court affirms abortion access

July 6, 2024

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White House explains ‘We’ve finally got Medicare under control’ debate gaffe

The White House on Wednesday clarified what it meant when President Biden mistakenly said, “We finally defeated Medicare” during last week’s presidential debate.

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Former Congresswoman Jackie Speier diagnosed with breast cancer

Former Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) announced her breast cancer diagnosis in a social media post. “I have some personal news to share with you all, because we can all learn from it: I am now one of the 300,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer each year,” Speier said in a post on social platform X on Thursday. “The good news is that the cancer was caught early and I had a successful lumpectomy on Tuesday.”…

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Hill Event

Mind the Gap: The Cost of Mental Health Disparities | July 24, Washington DC | In-person and nationally streamed

July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and The Hill is bringing together a diverse group of administration officials, lawmakers, health care professionals and advocates to discuss the issue. The impact of mental health inequalities In the United States.

The speakers are as follows:

Daniel DawesFounding Dean, Meharry School of Global Health
doctor Gary PackleinPresident, National Minority Quality Forum
Daniel GillisonCEO, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
doctor Patrice HariFormer AMA President

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In other news

Branching in a different way:

Japan’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to pay compensation to disabled people who were subjected to forced sterilization.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling Wednesday ordering the government to pay appropriate compensation to about a dozen victims who were forcibly sterilized under a now-repealed eugenics protection law that aimed to end the offspring of disabled people. An estimated 25,000 people were sterilized between the 1960s and 1980s.

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All over the country

Local and state headlines on health care:

Florida look COVID-19 surge In the emergency room near the peak of last winter (CBS News)
Pueblo health officials are investigating Human plague cases Within the county (core)
Mosquitoes and Dangerous EEE virus found mass. For the first time in 2024 (Boston.com)

What we’re reading

Other notable health news from the media:

For tampons Toxic metals lead and arsenicThe researchers (Bloomberg)
Diabetic patients who take GLP-1 instead of insulin Reduced cancer riskAccording to the study (Reuters)
Boston researchers investigate Over-the-counter PrEP HIV prevention (Axios)